The One Year Praying the Promises of God Quotes

“But some circumstances cause us to recognize that we have been counting on something else to do for us what only God can do.”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“Poured Out Moab has been at rest from youth, like wine left on its dregs, not poured from one jar to another. . . . So she tastes as she did, and her aroma is unchanged. Jeremiah 48:11 (NIV) God is working in you a process that goes beyond simple obedience down to the roots of unrighteousness that produce disobedience. He is cleansing you moment by moment, moving you from one level to the next and never leaving you to “sit on your dregs.” Jeremiah is describing Moab as people who have never been challenged and forced to face disappointment or disruption of their lives. They are like wine on its dregs, which becomes bitter and harsh. Wine making involves different stages and vessels of different size, shape, and construction. A wine must be moved from vessel to vessel. Each stage accomplishes something different for the final product—the wine that it is becoming. At each stage, the dregs settle to the bottom and must be strained out. Only the winemake can tell the stage at which a wine must be emptied from one vessel to another God, the great Winemaker, is fermenting a rich and perfect wine in you. Do you feel yourself being emptied from vessel to vessel? Just as you get used to the shape and feel of your life as it is, you find yourself being emptied out. It is disorienting. Then you find yourself poured into a life of a completely different shape and size. Don’t be frightened when the shape of your life seems to be changing. God will not let you sit on your dregs. You will not be locked into your immaturity, retaining the same aroma as in your youth. God is ripening you, fermenting you, enriching you. Embrace his transitions, because God moves only forward. Father, you are the Winemaker—fermenting my life until it is a perfect vintage with beautiful aroma. I trust you and thank you for all the stages of my journey. With you, nothing is wasted or capricious but is part of a beautiful process. I yield myself to you. Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. —ST. AUGUSTINE (354–430), Latin North African theologian and philosopher,”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“A wrong view of God leads inevitably to a failure to enjoy and grow in His grace. Failure to appreciate His love, His kindness and generous heart leads eventually to a life which bears no fruit and makes no progress. The lesson is clear: if you would grow in grace, learn what grace is. Taste and see that the Lord is good. —SINCLAIR B. FERGUSON (1948–), Scottish preacher and theologian”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it? —HANNAH WHITALL SMITH (1832–1911), American lay speaker and author”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated sufferings. —ADONIRAM JUDSON (1788–1850), American missionary to Burma (now Myanmar)”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“Prayer, even prayer for what God desires, releases power by the operation of a deep spiritual law; and to offer up what one loves may release still more. —SHELDON VANAUKEN (1914–1996), American author and editor”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. . . . He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing. —ROBERT FARRAR CAPON (1925–), American priest and author”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“Father, teach me to live in the abundance of your promises instead of in my evaluation of my circumstances.”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! —ANNE”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are. —JACQUES-MARIE-LOUIS MONSABRÉ”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“If you wish to be disappointed, look to others. If you wish to be downhearted, look to yourself. If you wish to be encouraged . . . look upon Jesus Christ. —ERICH SAUER (1898–1959), German theologian and writer”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“adequate? Is there any dilemma for which Jesus does not have wisdom? Is it possible to experience any challenge for which Jesus is not equipped? If you have Jesus—the living-right-now Jesus—then you have all you need. What concerns you right now? What frightens you? Hand it over to Jesus, who is closer to you and more available to you than any mere human being can ever be. Sit quietly, and let the reality of his presence settle on you. Take time to be aware. Be present to the Presence. Christ in me, let me live with such keen attentiveness to your indwelling life that you are the focal point that defines how I see every circumstance. On the first day of Pentecost He returned, not this time to be with them externally—clothed with that sinless humanity that God had prepared for Him, being conceived of the Spirit in the womb of Mary—but now to be in them imparting to them His own divine nature, clothing Himself with their humanity. . . . He spoke with their lips. He worked with their hands. This was the miracle of new birth and this remains the very heart of the gospel. —MAJOR W. IAN THOMAS (1914–2007), English writer and theology teacher”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“Present to the Presence Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Luke 24:5-6 We serve a risen, living, present Lord. We don’t have to try to find him among musty laws or stale ceremonies or stagnant rituals. We don’t seek the Living among the dead. The promise of a vibrant and attendant Savior, who offers his own power, wisdom, and peace in any given moment is the promise that gathers all other promises into one. He offers himself. When we have him, we have everything the Father has to give: God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ. (Colossians 1:19) In [Christ] lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Colossians 2:3) In Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority. (Colossians 2:9-10) He is so present that he is in you, making himself available to you and through you. He is living in your world, your circumstances. Is there any situation for which Jesus is not”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“O what peace we often forfeit,      O what needless pain we bear,      All because we do not carry      Everything to God in prayer! —“WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS” BY JOSEPH SCRIVEN”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“He will provide, protect, and shower grace in abundance as we give our burdens, the heaviness of our jobs or family situations, to the one who is eternally faithful and true. When we do, the Spirit will show us what is our part, what is God’s part, and what is others’ part so we don’t try to do everything. As we give the Lord our deepest burdens, we will know him more deeply and grow in thankfulness. Then we will find rest for our souls.”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“Yet this verse tells us that if we will give our burdens to the Lord, sometimes even on a moment-by-moment basis, he will carry them for us. What a promise! What an invitation! We have a Savior who cares for us intimately and is thinking about us constantly.”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God

“Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you.                I have called you by name; you are mine.           When you go through deep waters,                I will be with you.           When you go through rivers of difficulty,                you will not drown.           When you walk through the fire of oppression,                you will not be burned up;                the flames will not consume you.           For I am the LORD, your God. Isaiah 43:1-3”
― Cheri Fuller, The One Year Praying the Promises of God